Russia’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Friday calling for NATO to rescind a promise it made in 2008 to eventually admit Ukraine and Georgia, two states that border Russia.
“In the fundamental interests of European security, it is necessary to formally disavow the decision of the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit that ‘Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members,'” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The request is part of some security guarantees Russia seeks from the US and NATO amid heightened tensions over Ukraine. The Russians also want to establish a security dialogue to avoid near-misses between military planes and warships. The US and NATO have stepped up their activity in the Black Sea, and Western warplanes now have frequent encounters with Russian aircraft.
On Thursday, sources told The Associated Press that the Biden administration has told Ukraine that a NATO membership is unlikely to be approved within the next decade, a sign that the US does not want to escalate the situation further. A Ukrainian NATO membership has long been a red line for Russia.
In October, before the latest tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine and Georgia and signaled that the door is still open for the two nations to join NATO. “No third country has a veto over NATO’s membership decisions,” Austin said in Kyiv.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Friday warned Western powers against not giving Russia some security guarantees. “If our opponents on the other side … refuse, try to torpedo the whole thing, they will inevitably encounter a further worsening of their own security situation,” he said.
President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed tensions in the region in a virtual summit on Tuesday. After the meeting, Putin said Russia will continue dialogue with the US and soon send proposals for security guarantees.
There is nothing wrong with Russian conditions.Back in sixty two Kennedy demanded and got missiles removed from Cuba. But he was also a reasonable and peace loving man to have realised that stationing Jupiter missile in Turkey was immoral and assured their removal albeit in private. The difference is that Kennedy was was president de facto and de jure. He could and did make decision on his won.Now with Zionists breathing down his neck, slave Biden can not take a decision on his won.
Could you go through the members of Excom of 62 crisis. With the probable exception of puppet Johnson there was no Zionist known in the decision making committee. Contrast: Blinken, Sullivan, Klien, Nuland, Kagan and assorted other Zionists. Whose interest they will care for Zionists’ or America’s
Kennedy had the aging missiles removed from Turkey, only to be replaced by new ones. We pulled a fast one on Khrushchev.
Kennedy’s logic was that Polaris based missiles will take care.But don’t forget Kennedy did not pull out Jupiter because did not give the required. But later it was and matters rest there.the issue is that patriotism and statecraft prevailed.Both are now outsourced to Zionists
The US did not put new missiles into Turkey.
America likes to play in everybody else’s backyard, but nobody can play in ours. If we could see issues from the other guy’s perspective we would see why the Russians are worried about Ukraine. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Warsaw Pact nations should never have been incorporated into NATO, especially after Russia was promised that that would not happen. The Russians see NATO, along with all its missiles and war paraphernalia stashed in the former Soviet territories, as a threat as well they should. American “diplomats” should be able to understand that and act accordingly.
Oh, they can see but they pretend not to see and pretend to be the victim of agression.
So who is Russia supposed to believe? Biden (the anonymous “sources”) or gen. Austin?
LOL!!
First, according to an earlier report, it was merely said that Biden might tell Ukraine that. Another report said NATO was not even discussed in Biden’s call to Zelensky.
Second, notice the use of the word “unlikely”.
Third, the notion that this is a sign that the US doesn’t want to escalate the situation is completely premature. Five minutes after Biden’s call, Ukraine sent a warship to the Kerch Straits to provoke Russia.
Everyone is so desperate to see a sign that a war between Ukraine and Russia is not going to break out that they are tea-leaving every 24 news cycle tid-bit, while forgetting that absolutely nothing has changed on the ground. Until Ukraine starts removing its forces from the contact line and stops shelling the Donbass, the situation remains as it was last spring and indeed for the last six years.
Russia wants to keep NATO away from its border. Gorbachev said that at the end of the Cold War, and was promised it. The US lied.
So now we have a problem.
At what point might the Russians just not take it anymore?
What exactly might be their limit, or the limit of their reaction?
Very well said Mark. Let us hope that cooler heads prevail… Regardless of anything, this is a real problem. I would be grievously concerned if I were Russian, indeed, I am grievously concerned as an American. Western deceits have screwed things up many times before, historically and seem bound to be headed in that direction again.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pascalemueller/ukrainian-migrants-say-they-were-lured-to-germany-then-made
Ukrainian Migrants Lured to Germany.
Admitting Georgia and Ukraine would mean more missiles on Russia’s border. So, as usual, if we, the United States of America starts a shooting war, the first countries to go will be those members of NATO that have missiles at Russia’s doorstep. Incinerated. Ukraine needs to think things through.
In addition, Russia concerns are entirely legitimate so they must have some sort of due process, though I am not entirely sure where or how… At the United Nations? Or thru other channels?…